Key to the Dominance of Western Civilization:

What is the difference between the West and other countries? The combination of these six functions, or "killer app" makes West the world leader

Decentralization in Europe promoted the emergence of political and economic competition, the birth of a national state, and the rise of capitalism

Eastern Muslim powers delayed the scientific progress of their own region, but western Christianity made military and academic progress.

Due to the extensive relationship between land ownership and its democratic process, the United States is more productive and stable than the southern neighbor countries.

Western medicine is developed and shared by colonies of colonial times in Africa and other regions and can double life expectancy

Since American commodities and fashion have information on Western freedom, in the 20th century saw a new model of consumer - centered civilization.

American Protestantism highlights diligence, salvation, and literacy skills. However, today Americans are saving fewer Europeans, but there are still over 40 million Protestants in China.

In the book of "civilization" on the rise of Western civilization (and decline), Neil Ferguson believes that the main reason for the rule of the century CE is due to the establishment of six institutions over time I will. Alternatively, we can grow and prosper, due to weather accidents and geographical places, but due to long-term, highly utilized institutional superiority. In the next century, the new long-term system will be replaced by micro-organizations that have been used more than ever, individual leadership and small innovation teams (the disappearance of organized religious and industrial foundations Will see less). More things. When we build a new economy and a new world, the six basic elements are taken for granted.

"Why is it that the small and cumbersome Messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire expelled classical paganism and became the dominant creed of Western civilization?" It is his important question in becoming a dominant religious faction in Western countries. Stark estimates that the number of Christians will not exceed 1,000 in the year 40 AD. However, in the 3 rd century Christianity grew at a rate of 40% in 10 years. By the year 350 AD the total population of the Roman Empire was 60 million and the population of the Roman Empire was 33 million. At the beginning of the 4th century there were so many Christians and Emperor Constantin believed that accepting Christianity is politically beneficial.

If Western culture is influenced by Greece and Rome, is monotheism an important part of Western civilization? After all, Greeks and Romans are polytheist. The second major influence on Western civilization is the heritage of Judaism and Christianity, partly due to Jewish customs, mainly due to the Jewish Christianity sect. Christian morals and virtues influence the concept of sexual behavior toward social status and are the foundation of most Western moral and behavioral schools. The teachings of Judaism and Christianity also stimulated a strong dual worldview in Western civilization. There are not many Gods, there is one. It is not a moral gradient but only good and evil. Time can be understood as past and future. Gender is male and female